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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918. BUSINESS MEN OF NATION REGISTER OBJECTION 1U GOVERNMENT ACTION TAKEN TO CONSERVE COAL FILE PROTESTS AGAINST FUEL SAVING ORDER Business Men Aroused at Gar field's Drastic Action; Criti cize Ruling as Unneces sary At This Time. (By Associated Prm.) Washington, Jan. 17. Protests against the fuel administration order closing down industrial plants began pouring into the White House and congress today from all over the country. Business men everywhere, aroused at the prospect, objected to its enforcement and suggested many other remedies. FORMAL ORDER PROMISED. The fuel administration meanwhile hurried on the machinery for carry ing out the plan. Fuel Administra tor Garfield assembled all his legal staff and began preparation of the formal order, which, it was promised, would clear up many point which were indefinite or conflicting in the abstract and statement issued last night. , It developed that the order actually had not been drawn when Mr. Gar field made his announcement and when the fuel administration issued an abstract of what it was expected to be. , . lL It was said that the full text of the order could not be prepared in time to be given out much before this aft ernoon and there was some doubt as to whether its text would be ready for publication in evening papers today. Startling Announcement. New York, Jan. 17. Fuel adminis trators today frankly admitted they were not prepared for such a startling announcement from Washington and that it would be some time before they could familiarize themselves with the complex details of the iplati. Many business men and oflicials criticised the orders as unnecessary and as furnishing no real solution of the problem, while others were in clined to the belief that stern meas ures were needed to cope with the situation and that the saving of coal, while working hardships on thou sands, would be worth the sacrifice. Wage Earners Affected. "It's up to us to carry out our or ders," said Reeve Schley, fuel admin- isiraiur lor juh v ... these are war times. We must con sider ourselves soldiers here just as much as if we were in the trenches. In the opinion of industrial statis ticians approximately 3,000,000 wage earners in New York state will be af fected by the temporary shutdown of industry. Of this number more than 1,900,000 live and work in this city. The wae loss for the IS days, accord ing to conservative unofficial esti mates, will be $102,528,150. Women Workers Hard Hit. Officials of various trade unions have issued hurry calls for emer gency meetings throughout the state , to consider ways and means for the relief of members woh may be left without funds. Some concern is ex pressed for the thousands of women needle workers in this city who are paid only for the labor actually per formed. ' Shoe Industry Tied Up. Boston, Jan. 17. Many business and labor leaders commenting today on the fuel administrator's ordei foi I ....tinM 1aj.lipsi4 ll Cltlia coal cunsci vatiuu uvvi,' tion did not seem to them to demand the hardships which they pointed ou , would follow the five-day closing of industrial plants. Thomas F. Anderson, secretary of the New England Shoe and Leathei association, said: "More than 100,000 workers will be affected in the shoe shoos alone, while in the al'ied industries another 5Q.000 will be forced into an idleness they cap ill affnrrf at thin time. "More than 50 per cent o the shoes in the United States are made in thii vicinity, and the loss in wages will be hard to estimate. The s'tuation is much more seriousness on account oi the apparent lack of necessity for such action. Too Drastic for Illinois. Chicago, Jan. 17. Nearly 400,000 workers in the Chicago industrial di trict are affected by the odet of the national fuel administrator. The num ber of manufacturing plants in the Chicago district which will shut dowc m compliance with the order to con serve coal is 8,857. t The p'der forestalled a plan which the state fuel administration was tc announce today making the Saturdays and Mondays of the next two weeks holidays. While the national order is regarded as too drastic as applying tc Illinois, the officials here at once sen' word to Washington pledging co-op eration. Outside of the Chicago district it i- estimated more 'han 3,000 plants cm- ploying approximately 150,000 men , throughout the state will be closed by the order .:.. - When tews of the order was re ceived here more than 100 cianufactur erg and prominent business men were in attendance at a meeting at which State Fuel Administrator Williams presided The following resolution WfcS. unani ( mously adopted and ordered sent to wasningion: . "We express our reeret of the ne cessity for this action and respectfully extend out cheertul :o-operation an wnoienearrea compliance as a pa inouc auiy. Philadelphia. Tan. 17. Five hun dred thousand persons will be made idle in Philadelphia with a wage loss ot approximately $I,UUU,UW a day by Fuel Administrator Garfield's coal saving order. Merchants, manufacturers and oth era assure Dr. Garfield of their hearty co-operation. Many manufac tnrers doubt whether the order ap plies to them and have wired Wash inzton fo. information. The closing of the Baldwin locomo tive works, with its 20,000 workers, , it was said, would mean the loss of 17 locomotives for each, day of idle ness. Garfield Asks Pay For Employes Laid Off Washington, Jan. 17. Dr. Gar field will issue, probably during the day, a public appeal to em ployers to continue the pay of their employes during the tim- they are idle because of the fuel order. The government has no power to en force this request, but will call on employers to take the step as a pa triotic duty. . GARFIELD ON GRILL FOR NEW COAL RULING Fuel Head Defends Drastic Measure During Examination by Committee of the Senate. Washington, Jan. 17. "The pur pose of the fuel order," Dr. Garfield informed the senate committee this morning during the investigation into the reason for the startling ruling, "is not to interfere in the slightest de gree with the loading of coal at the mines. This is made clear in the am plification of the abstract." A modification decided on this morning, Dr. Garfield said, put all consumers in the preferential list on an equal basis with no preference shown to any one class. Dr. Garfield said that the plan was to permit certain war industries to pperate despite the order. Shipbuilding, he said, was one of them, but if the industries to be ex empted were classified in the order it would cause a storm of protest and embarrass the fuel administration. Dr. Garfield said Secretaries Baker and Daniels were preparing such a list. The list of exempted industrials, Dr. Garfield said, would include those im mediately necessary in the Conduct of the war. Aside from shipping and airplanes, he said, he did not know what the list would contain. Postpone Further Debate. While Dr. Garfield was being ex amined by the senate coal committee, the senate agreed to postpone further debate on the Hitchcock 'resolution until 4 o'clock. The order was made necessary. Dr. Garfield said, by transportation condi tions, which had made it impossible to supply industries and at the same time furnish homes and public insti tutions. The necessity for moving ships, he said was so great that dras tic measures were compulsory. "This order was issued because of a lack of coal for private consuhiers and utilities," he said. "This was not caused by lack of production, but, as we all know, by conditions we have faced since December 8." The fuel administrator evidently referred to weather conditions. "The nurnose of the order is not to interfere with loading cars with coal and sending them forward," he con tinued. . "We do. not intertere. witn the mines from consigning coal dur ing the five days in- the . normal, natural way. And it does not affect delivery of coal by dealers." Companies Must fay wages. The section of the order marked u MM a . as u, pubiisnea toaay, nas oeen changed to make that clear, he said. All coal mined and arriving at des tination in the five-day period under contract will be turned over to the state fuel administration. . "I have been discussing this with business men for a month," said Dr. Garfield. "If companies fail to. pay wages' for these idle days they will not be doing their part." . t ; J it.. U . senator neeti aajournea mc nest ing at 3 o clock and the committee men then returned to the senate. As Dr. Garfield came from the com mittee room a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States intercepted him and they re entered the room for a conference. "We want to find out what it all means," said waddiii aicnings oi New York. "We knew nothing of the order until we read about it in the newspapers this morning." Giant Fuel Act Becomes Effective In Spite of Protest (Continued from Past One.) portions of buildings, as are used in connection with the production, wans portation or distribution of fuel. Protect Property f rom Freezing. "Section VIII: "State fue. admiistrators and there representatives specifically authorized to no so are hereby empowered to grant such relief sa may be essential to prevent injury to health or to pre vent destruction of or injury to prop erty by fire or freezing. "Section I a: "This regulation is effective throughout the United States east of the Mississipi river, including the whole of the states 6i Louisiana and Minnesota. v "Section X: "Any person, firm, association or corporation which violates or refuses to conform to the . above regulation may be liable to the penalty pre scribed in the aforesaid act of con gress. "(Signed.) "U. S. H. A. GARFIELD, Fuel Administrator." INSTANT POSTUH an oxcQllont drink for thoia who havo a tandsncy to Indigestion D M 0 BALLOU WEEDS OUT NEGROREGIMENT Percentage of Rejections on Account of Physical Imperfec tions Will Eun to Twenty; Many Sent Home. (From a Staff Correspondent.) Dcs Moines, la., Jan. 17. (Special Telegram.) About 175 Alabama negroes, members of the 366th infan try, are being sent home on account of physical disability. The regiment is being weeded out and when all cases have been decided the percent age of rejections will be about 20. Major General Ballou is inspecting the negro regiment and announces that he is well pleased with the progress that has been made. Probe Dakota Draft Board. Methods used by local draft boards in North Dakota in selecting men for service with the 88th divison of the natonal army at Camp Dodge are to be investigated by army officers. It is reported at Camp Dodge that many men were sent to Camp Dodge from North Dakota in the first incre ments who are physically unfit and who had dependent relatives. Four officers in two groups have been in structed to visit towns in North Da kota to "investigate the methods used in selecting drafted men, to ad vise the members relative to the phy sical examinations made and instruct them in the manner of procedure," according to special orders issued by Brigadier General R. N. Getty, acting division commander. The officers, who are all members of the medical corps, will visit Grand Forks, Devil's Lake, Rugby, Minot, Williston and New Rock ford. No Federal Fuel Investigation. The United States fuel administra tion has turned down the request of the Iowa State Council of National Defense for a federal fuel investiga tion in Iowa. In a telegram to Sec retary Metcalf of the state council to day .United States Federal Adminis trator Neale declares that it would be unfair to coal producers to ask them to make public their costs of production in a public hearing. How ever, Administrator Neale declares that the cost-statements submitted to the department at Washington by the coal operators will be gone over care fully to discover whether or not the profits now being enjoyed by coal operators in Des Moines are too high. Resolutions, were passed by the state defense council at its meeting at the state house January 11 and forwarded to H. A. Garfield at Washington de claring that federal regulation of coal prices in Iowa had resulted in prices generally considered exorbitant and out of all proportion to the cost of production, plus a reasonable profit. The resolutions urged the' federal fuel commission to conduct an open hAiHno- at th state notise. at wn Cll "witnesses shall be compelled to at tend and give evidence, under oath," as to the cost of production. The roantntinn further ureed a revision of the coal prices based on the find ings of this hearing. Bolsheviki Seize Irkutsk After Ten Days' Battle Potrnorad. Tuesdav. Tan. IS. The RnUlivTwi forces have seized Irkutsk, in eastern Serbit, after a ten days' bat tU Atl the Cossacks and military cadets were disarmed and the author ity of the . workmen s and soldiers government proclaimed. Orenburg, capital of the Siberian nrovince of that name, also has been occupied by the Bolsheviki. The edict ot the MDerian repuonc nf Omul- nrnhihitinflr the exoort of food to Russia, until the constituent assembly is called to order, became effective December 28. Arrest of Roumanian King Ordered by Russians Fetrograd, Jan. 17. An order threatening the arrest of King Fer dinand of Roumania has been issued by the Bolsheviki. Premier Lenine today signed an order for th; arrest of King Fer dinand of Roumania, who is to be sent to Fetrograd for imprisonment in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. The order for the king s arrest de scribed in detail the way it is to be carried out and in which the king is to be guarded. The Bolsheviki be lieve they have sufficient forces on the Roumanian front to carry it out. Washington. Jan. 17. The con ference of diplomats in Petrograd with Premier Lenine regarding the arrest of the Roumanian minister will not be construed by this frovernment as recognition ot the de tacto char acter of the Bolsheviki government. DR. McKENNEY Says: 1 "Beautiful teeth add much to your chances for success." Heaviest Brid I Beat Silver Fill- Work, per tootb. infi $400 75c Beet 22-k Cold Wonder Plates worth f 15 to 125. Crowns S5,$M10 $4 00 We please you or refund your money McKENNEY DENTISTS 14th and Farnam 1324 Farnam St. Phono Douglas 2872. CuticuraSoap and Ointment for Skin Troubles Snap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c I COAL MOVEMENT SUSPENDED BY SNOWSTORMS Trains Buried by High Winds and Fresh Snow; Four-Day ' Delay in Restoring Nor mal Conditions In West. Washington, Jan. 17. Bad weather reduced coal movements between the Appalachian mountains and the Mis sissippi river today to less than at anv time within the last week, according to reports reaching the railroad ad ministration. To clear up the congestion of ship ping at principal Atlantic ports re sulting from the famine of bunker coal, Fuel Administrator Garfield has selected a special assistant to take charge of bunkering at the ports. The coal is assured by the fuel ad minrstration's order. COAL TRAINS BURIED. Fresh snows and high winds in the Pennsylvania mountains buried scores of coal trains and rails previously opened to coal mines were again cov ered with high drifts. In the middle west tracks to mines were opened but the supply of empty cars was greatly reduced. Indications were that the loading of coal in the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana fields would not be restored to normal for four days. Along the eastern seaboard and in the extreme west conditions were much better and coal was moving rapidly. Thousands of protests against the fuel administration's order reached the railroad administration today and were met with the announcement that the railroads were helpless until the snow and the blanket covering the middle west is melted. Officials today were at work on an attempt to move several thousand skilled workmen, including machin ists, from western railroad territory to the east to assist in repairing loco motives ami cars. Difficulties were encountered, how ever, when a number of western rail roads declined to release large num bers of employes. Home Guards at Edgar. Edgar, Neb., Jan. 17. (Special.) An organization of Home Guards was perfected here last night Forty men signed the roll and the constitution and rules of the county were adopted. Captain West, of Clay Center, was present and made a talk, explaining the purpose of the organization. C. P. Avery was elected captain, J. G. Walley, first lieutenant, and Clair Voorhees, second lieutenant. SENATE MOVE FAILS TO KILL COAL ORDER (Continued From Page One.) am shown that it is necessary I will pologize for what I may say. He described the coal situation in Ohio, which he said was "due, per haps, to the way the situation has been handled." "The fuel administrator refers to the Ohio situation as 'psychological,' but with this psychological situation before him he orders that persons with coal cannot use it," added Sen ator Pomerene. Senator Smith, democrat, of South Carolina, said a South Carolina man ufacturer communicated with him to day, asking if plants using water power were affected by the order. "1 called the tuel administration office on the telephone and was in formed the order affected all plants not excluded by the order," said Sen ator Smith. 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Thousands of Loaded Freight Cars Tied Up on Omaha Roads Local railroad officials assert that they are unable to see how the shut ting down of industrial and manufac turing plants east of the Mississippi river is going to have any effect upon the business of Omaha trade terri tory and the central west. Omaha railroad men say tnat ngnt now there is a freight embargo on shipments of oracticallv every com modity to Chicago and points beyond. This embargo exempts dressea meats, nthrr fnnrlstuffs and evervtbinflT in the way of munitions or government sup plies, thus, witn tne manuiaciunng plants shut down in the tertitory east n( Mississinni river, could mean nothing more than tightening the em bargo up perhaps another notcn. The embargo is already felt by the local roads. Right now the Union Pacific has more than 2,500 loaded freight cars tied up along its lines. They are loaded with commodities for Chicago and beyond. The Bur lington has more than halt as many and the Northwestern has close to 1,000, with the other Omaha-Chicago lines coming along with 300 to 800 cars each. To tighten the embargo, say the railroad men, would be simply serv ing notice to shippers that their con signments could not be delivered at destination and the probability would be that there would be a lessening in the demand for empty cars. Railroad men assert that should an ejaculated Senator Tillman. Referred to Assistant. Senator Pomerene previously had said he was unable to see Dr. Gar field and was referred .o an assist ant. Senator Kellogg, republican, of Minnesota, denied that the north west was receiving coal, declaring that much of the coal loaded on the lakes was transported to Canada when it was impossible for people living at the head of the lakes to get coal. Senator Pomerene said he had been told that the people of Canada has sufficient coal to last until July. "If it is an unwise order, has con gress been reduced to such a position that it can only make a request of the fuel administrator?" demanded Senator Borah. ,: Oppose Postponement. Senator Knox, republican, wanted the resolution addressed directly to the, president. Senator Lewis, democrat, moved that it go over until tomorrow, but that met with immediate opposition Senator Hoke Smith,' democrat, said he believed it "utterly unwise" to nnstnnnp artioft until tomorrow. because with the information at hand' he believed the order should be sus pended. Three Dead and Six ; Burned in, Farm House at Sargent (Continued From Page On. cued were horribly burned and liveJ but a few hours. The roof caved in on the other child, whose body was found in the ruins. The father, a well-to-do Polish far mer, and the two elder children, a boy and a girl, are in a hospital at Sargent They are terribly burned and suffered glass cuts when they attempted to leave the house through a window. 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